Read from Lingua Latina yesterday. Intend to do the same today.
How about you guys? What will you be doing?
wb
I will be able to resume my personal studies this weekend. Perhaps tonight I will be able to review unit 9, but I’ve been saying that for a while. The only thing which restrained me this week was the death of my computer, and my efforts in trying to get it up again, search for components, etc. Since I will be getting a temporary laptop this weekend, I’ll be back on track. I’m not abandoning the daily thread!
More of Iliad 24 tonight.
Salvete,
I’ll be working on Ben D’Ooge Lesson 68 today, including the reading on page 212. After that, I need to make a test for my daughter, through Review III. I’ll also be researching a new phrase or two for my Household Latin book. Gonna be busy!
Valete,
Rusticus
Neat-o. In what language are you reading it?
I have Illiad and Odyssey in English (Fitzgerald translations). I’ve only read them through once, but I and my kids have also read The Children’s Homer, as well as several Homeric stories in other children’s classical story books.
Greek, if I’m not mistaken.
For me today… blah… I feel so unmotivated… lol. It’s COLD and rainy outside and has been raining for days… give me a hot fire and some hot chocolate and I’ll study…lol.
oh… I’ll try to get something done…
I have summer temperatures right now and am still stuck in Iliad book 4. Wish I had rain and no opportunity to go out 
Then I would have finished book 4 long ago.
Greek, if I’m not mistaken.
Impressive. Did you study Homeric Greek or Attic Greek? I’ve heard that knowing Attic is good enough for reading Homer, but one doesn’t get the “full effect” of the Homeric poetry.
In Greek, indeed. While I am not quite so snobbish as to say that that is the only way to read Homer, I shall say that it is without doubt the best way. As to my background, I was originally trained in Attic Greek. Now that I have almost finished reading the Iliad, I think that I have developed a fair acquaintance with Homer as well. The only way to “study” Homeric Greek is to read Homer, and so … “getting the full effect” may be a circular thing. How can you get the full effect of Homer? By knowing Homeric Greek. How can you learn Homeric Greek? By reading Homer. I read and enjoy and learn more every day, and I am sure that as I re-read the Iliad again and again throughout the course of my life I shall imbibe yet more deeply of its poetic streams.
I did get some reading done today, but unfortunately my fiancee came down with my illness and so I needed to take care of her. But I hope to make serious progress this weekend.
I read LL1: Tempestas for the first time. It seems to me that there’s quite a jump in the difficulty between Magister et Discipuli, and the next cap, Tempestas, compared to the rate of previous caps.
Well I did get SOMETHING done, but not much as I ended up having a nap… lol. Will keep plugging today!